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3 | | -.TH "fi_provider" "7" "2024\-10\-17" "Libfabric Programmer\[cq]s Manual" "#VERSION#" |
| 3 | +.TH "fi_provider" "7" "2024\-10\-25" "Libfabric Programmer\[cq]s Manual" "#VERSION#" |
4 | 4 | .hy |
5 | 5 | .SH NAME |
6 | 6 | .PP |
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ A provider for the Amazon EC2 Elastic Fabric Adapter |
82 | 82 | hardware interface for inter-instance communication on EC2. |
83 | 83 | See \f[C]fi_efa\f[R](7) for more information. |
84 | 84 | .TP |
| 85 | +\f[I]LPP\f[R] |
| 86 | +A provider runs on FabreX PCIe networks. |
| 87 | +See \f[C]fi_lpp\f[R](7) for more information. |
| 88 | +.TP |
85 | 89 | \f[I]OPX\f[R] |
86 | 90 | Supports Omni-Path networking from Cornelis Networks. |
87 | 91 | See \f[C]fi_opx\f[R](7) for more information. |
@@ -163,6 +167,20 @@ An offload provider is intended to accelerate specific types of |
163 | 167 | communication, generally by taking advantage of network services that |
164 | 168 | have been offloaded into hardware, though actual hardware offload |
165 | 169 | support is not a requirement. |
| 170 | +.SH LINKx (LNX) provider (Technology Preview) |
| 171 | +.PP |
| 172 | +The LNX provider is designed to link two or more providers, allowing |
| 173 | +applications to seamlessly use multiple providers or NICs. |
| 174 | +This provider uses the libfabric peer infrastructure to aid in the use |
| 175 | +of the underlying providers. |
| 176 | +This version of the provider currently supports linking the libfabric |
| 177 | +shared memory provider for intra-node traffic and another provider for |
| 178 | +inter-node traffic. |
| 179 | +Future releases of the provider will allow linking any number of |
| 180 | +providers and provide the users with the ability to influence the way |
| 181 | +the providers are utilized for traffic load. |
| 182 | +.PP |
| 183 | +See \f[C]fi_lnx\f[R](7) for more information. |
166 | 184 | .SH SEE ALSO |
167 | 185 | .PP |
168 | 186 | \f[C]fabric\f[R](7) \f[C]fi_provider\f[R](3) |
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